How to pronounce "snatching"

that are better for human health, better for the environment

and that are more productive.

So it turns out that those fuels and technologies exist,

and this is an example of that.

This is a solar LED lightbulb

that we sell for a retail price of about 10 dollars in rural Haiti.

That's a payback period of less than three months

for the average Haitian household.

The prescriptions to solve energy poverty seems pretty straightforward:

you develop these technologies that have a great return on investment,

and people should be snatching them up.

But that's not the case.

The first time I ever went down to Haiti was in August of 2008,

sort of on a whim,

and I was fielding surveys in the rural south of the country

to assess the extent of energy poverty.

And at night, I would go around sometimes

and I would speak with the street vendors

and see if they were interested in buying these solar LED lamps.

One woman who I encountered turned down my offer,

and she said, “Mon chéri, c'est trop Cher,”